05 October 2015

77 Favorite Novels +1

My plan was to identify my 100 favorite novels, but I stalled out at 77. I can think of other novels I've read, and enjoyed, but they don't qualify as "favorites." These aren't the greatest novels ever written -- though I think a handful should be on that list -- they're the ones I've enjoyed the most and most frequently returned to. I'm still on my first read of The Wake. I've read The Once and Future King at least 20 times. New addition: Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd. And if I had to pick just one --

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The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian; Sherman Alexie

The Age of Innocence; Edith Wharton

Always Coming Home; Ursula LeGuin

The Anna Papers; Ellen Gilchrist

Another Roadside Attraction; Tom Robbins

Beloved; Toni Morrison

Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

By the Highway Home; Mary Stoltz

Ceremony; Leslie Marmon Silko

The Changeling; Zilpha Keatley Snyder

Child of Fortune; Norman Spinrad

Cold Comfort Farm; Stella Gibbons

Cold Mountain; Ian Frazier

The Crock of Gold; James Stephens

The Dharma Bums; Jack Kerouac

The Dispossessed; Ursula LeGuin

Driftless: David Rhodes

The English Patient; Michael OndaatjeFar from the Madding Crowd: Thomas Hardy